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A Billion dollar lost in spam … still counting

Ever since I owned my first email account –

I have won the COCA COLA LOTTERY PROMOTION for more than 37 times. MICROSOFT have been sharing their fortunes with me in millions every year. 

In total, my 3,762 wishes were full filled by forwarding that JAI MATA DI email to 9 people every time it appeared in my inbox. 

…. and I have enough free vacation passes to DisneyLand for the entire मोहल्ला (neighbourhood)

But nothing from all those emails (SPAMs) was ever delivered and the guy in the picture is not ME 🙁

Image source [https://www.shoutability.com/google-adsense-alternatives-2012]

But, today morning I received a new email, this one is from Facebook and is quite interesting. It claims that Facebook unlawfully used my name/pictures/likes in sponsored stories without obtaining my consent. Therefore will pay me 🙂

Here is what it looked like –

 
It says – Facebook will pay $20 Million into a fund and which will be used to pay claims to its members upto $10 each. To be eligible for the claims I need to submit a claim form here

Mashable says its not a hoax but appeared to me.

Did you receive such email too ?

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